Postgraduate research
Criminology
Causes of crime
- Drugs, including drug use in prison
- Trauma and coping
- Terrorism and narcoterrorism
Dr Kofi Boakye
- Development and exposure to crime and violence across context
- Mental health, violence and suicide
- Crime prevention
- Commercial victimisation
- Security
- Organised crime
- Hit-and-run driving
- Acid attacks
- Environmental Criminological Theory
Dr Asmahan Msuya
- Crime in the Global south
- Cultural criminology
- Green criminology
- Offending Behaviour Interventions to prevent reoffending: general, violence, group-related, extremism-related, sexual offending.
- Prevention of violence and indiscipline in prisons, institutional behaviour management and situational crime prevention, creating a rehabilitative culture
Crime prevention
- Drugs, including drug use in prison
- Trauma and coping
- Terrorism and narcoterrorism
Dr Kofi Boakye
- Policing and crime prevention
- Criminal justice response to young people’s offending and victimisation
- Prisons and rehabilitation of violent offenders
- Crime prevention
- Commercial victimisation
- Security
- Organised crime
- Hit-and-run driving
- Acid attacks
- Situational Crime Prevention.
- Crime Prevention through Environmental Design.
- Crime-script analysis.
- Child protection
- Child safety online
- Nature of adolescence and offending behaviour in young adulthood
- Trauma-informed approach to psychology of multiple adverse childhood experiences
- Culturally informed assessment of causes of crime
- Working with neurodiversity as a contributory factor to crime
- Policing
- Offender crime scene behaviour
- Investigative psychology
- Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
- Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
- Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness
- Youth justice
- Social justice
- Service provision
- Professional decision making and identity
- Popular criminology and youth culture
Forensic science and psychology in criminal justice
Dr Kofi Boakye
- Policing and crime prevention
- Police violence
- Investigative psychology (particularly profiling of violent offenders, interviewing and witness testimony)
- Violence against women and girls
- Gender and racially motivated violence
- Mental health, violence and suicide
- Prisons and rehabilitation of violent offenders
- Death penalty in Africa
- The psychology of jurors/jury decision-making
- Comparative study of jury systems worldwide
- Miscarriages of justice
- Forensic psychology
- Eyewitness testimony
- Deception detection in criminal justice contexts
- Jury/judicial decision making about forensic science
- The role of forensic science in human rights investigations
- Forensic science and miscarriages of justice
- Human factors in forensic science
- Policing
- Offender crime scene behaviour
- Investigative psychology
- Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
- Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
- Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness
Gender, crime and violence
Dr Kofi Boakye
- Violence against women and girls
- Child sexual abuse
- Child abuse and neglect
- Queer and Feminist Criminologies
- Border and Migration Criminologies
- LGBTQ+ experiences of the criminal justice system
- Migration and Asylum
- History of gender and sexualities
- Criminalisation of Sex Work
- Sexual orientation and gender identity motivated hate crime
Professor Nick Mai
- Gender, Sexuality and Migration
- Queer Criminology
- Critical Smuggling and Trafficking Studies
- Critical Humanitarian Studies
- Migration and Asylum
- Migration, Sex Work and Trafficking
- Crime and gender
- Sex work
- Informal economies
- Regul
- Violence against women and girls
- Sexual and domestic abuse
- Survivors and lived experience
- Image-based sexual abuse
- Policing
- Offender crime scene behaviour
- Investigative psychology
- Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
- Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
- Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness
Green criminology
Professor Nick Mai
- Environmental crime and harm
- Environmental distress and solastalgia
- Overtourism and environmental harm and distress
- Ecocide
- Climate Change and Global Warming
- Corporate Environmental Harm
- Environmental Justice
- Animal Rights and Welfare
- Ecological and Species Justice
- Policy and Regulation
Hate crime and social justice
- Manifestations, experiences and encounters of Islamophobia
- Anti-Muslim hate crime
- Defining and conceptualising Islamophobia
- Counter-extremism and counter-terror policies and strategies
- Religiously motivated hate
- Counter-jihadi groups and movements
- Anti-Islam/anti-Muslim ideologies of the far-right
- Socio-political manifestations of the 'problematisation' of Muslim communities
Dr Kofi Boakye
- Gender and racially motivated violence
- Police violence and minority experiences of the criminal justice system
- Mental health, violence and suicide
- Hate crime victims
- Hate crime perpetrators
- Criminal justice responses to hate crime
- Disablist hate
- Homophobic and/or transphobic hate
- Racially motivated hate
- Religiously motivated hate
- Any other issues relating to wider themes of prejudice, ‘difference’ and ‘othering’
- Queer and Feminist Criminologies
- Border and Migration Criminologies
- LGBTQ+ experiences of the criminal justice system
- Migration and Asylum
- History of gender and sexualities
- Criminalisation of Sex Work
- Sexual orientation and gender identity motivated hate crime
- Hate crime (especially internationalisation and novel theoretical and methodological approaches to examining hate crime victimisation and policy responses)
- Access to justice, victims' rights and minority rights
- Links between hate speech, extremism, and disinformation.
- Child and adolescent resilience to maltreatment and abuse
- Child and adolescent safety in Africa
- Child and adolescent mental wellbeing and social equity
Professor Nick Mai
- Border Criminology
- Queer Criminology
- Criminalisation, Stigmatisation and Marginalisation of Migrant Groups
- Critical Humanitarian Studies
- Hate Crime, Migration and Asylum
- Hate Crime and Sex Work
- Hate Crime, Sexuality and Gender
Dr Asmahan Msuya
- Hate crime -Race and racialization of crime
- Penal system responses to hate crime
- Transnational Organised and corporate crime
- Interventions with group-related and extremism-related crime
- Managing prison environments with multiple conflicting groups
Police and Policing
Dr Kofi Boakye
- Policing and crime prevention
- Police violence and minority experiences of the criminal justice system
- Investigative psychology (particularly profiling of violent offenders, interviewing and witness testimony)
- Police leadership and command
- Critical incident management in the police
- Recruitment, selection and promotion in the police
- Police training, education and development
- Police occupational culture
- Diversity in the police
- Crime prevention
- Commercial victimisation
- Security
- Organised crime
- Roads policing/hit-and-run driving
- Acid attacks
- Policing cybercrime.
- Policing
- Offender crime scene behaviour
- Investigative psychology
- Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
- Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
- Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness
Probation, prisons and offender rehabilitation
- Drugs, including drug use in prison
- Trauma and coping
- Terrorism and narcoterrorism
Dr Kofi Boakye
- Prisons and rehabilitation of violent offenders
- Criminal justice response to young people’s offending and victimisation
- Death penalty in Africa
- Penology
- Desistance
- Rehabilitation
- Offender Management
Dr Asmahan Msuya
- Penology
- Re-entry and re-integration
- Crimmigration
- Prisons
- Prisoners
- Rehabilitation
- Interventions
- Suicide prevention
- Violence reduction
- Anti-bullying
- Trauma-informed approaches
- Culturally informed practice
- Client groups (personality disorder, young adults and adolescent offending, group/gang-related offending, extremism-related offending)
- Expert witness, particularly parole hearings
- Policing
- Offender crime scene behaviour
- Investigative psychology
- Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
- Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
- Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness
Security and terrorism
- Manifestations, experiences and encounters of Islamophobia
- Anti-Muslim hate crime
- Defining and conceptualising Islamophobia
- Counter-extremism and counter-terror policies and strategies
- Religiously motivated hate
- Counter-jihadi groups and movements
- Anti-Islam/ anti-Muslim ideologies of the far-right
- Socio-political manifestations of the 'problematisation' of Muslim communities
- Drugs, including drug use in prison
- Trauma and coping
- Terrorism and Narcoterrorism
- Italian mafias and lay perceptions of organised crime
- Crime prevention
- Commercial victimisation
- Security
- Organised crime
- Roads policing/ hit-and-run driving
- Acid attacks
- Counterterrorism and antiterrorism.
Dr Asmahan Msuya
- Islamophobia and Criminality
- Faith, religions and crime
- Religiously motivated hate
Victimisation and Victimology
- Queer and Feminist Criminologies
- Border and Migration Criminologies
- LGBTQ+ experiences of the criminal justice system
- Migration and Asylum
- History of gender and sexualities
- Criminalisation of Sex Work
- Sexual orientation and gender identity motivated hate crime
- Crime prevention
- Commercial victimisation
- Security
- Organised crime
- Roads policing/ hit-and-run driving
- Acid attacks
Professor Nick Mai
- Gender, Sexuality and Migration
- Queer Criminology
- Critical Smuggling and Trafficking Studies
- Critical Humanitarian Studies
- Migration and Asylum
- Migration, Sex Work and Trafficking
- Working with marginalised groups, culturally sensitive practice
- Working with people who harm themselves (suicide and self-harm prevention) and dual harm
- Crime and gender
- Regulation and the sex industry
- Gender/crime policy & practice
- Women in the CJS
- Acid/weapon crime
- Participatory Methods
- Modern Slavery
- Sexual and domestic abuse
- Criminal justice responses to survivors/victims
- Survivors and lived experience
- Violence against women and girls
- Screening and responses to domestic abuse
- Recovery journeys of survivors of sexual and domestic abuse
- Image-based sexual abuse